Reel and Slide (Jan-Sep 1919)

14 REEL and SLIDE Feeling as we do, a deep interest in the future welfare and prosperity of our people, we would like to contribute efforts which will bring comfort and happiness, as well as intelligence and prosperity, and as the motion picture business is freed from harassing traditions, and endeavors to profit from the rich experiences of the past, it is highly necessary that sanitarians fully awake, to the fact that a strong arm most helpful in their work is being overlooked and to their disadvantage. The motion picture business to the health authorities is indeed a new field, but men with age and experience are averse to change previous methods. Let us hope that when it is known and appreciated what a wonderful opportunity for good lays in the propaganda and educational part of "the movies" that sanitarians who are alert and up-to-date will quickly grasp this ready-made tool. Moving Pictures Used in Mobile Community Spirit Campaign Franklin H. Kean, who went to Mobile, Ala., some weeks ago to develop a community spirit, and who has been instrumental in the formation of motion picture and other programs which have done much to foster that spirit among the various neighborhoods, says his efforts have met with much success. He professes to be pleased with the keen interest shown in the movement, according to his reports to the Department of Labor. . For the week ending February 8, Mr. Kea-n conducted the following program : Monday — Community sing and moving pictures at Barton Academy. Tuesday — Community sing at Oakdale school. Wednesday — Community sing and moving pictures at Russell school. Thursday — Sociable and .grievance meeting at Russell school; debate and spelling at Oakdale school. Friday — Sociable and grievance meeting at Oakdale school ; debate and spelling at Barton school. Pathe Releases ''Alsace-Lorraine" "In Alsace-Lorraine" is the title of an official film, photographed by the Cinematographic Division of the French Army and released by Pathe on February 2nd. The settings of these views are the cities of Mulhouse, Metz, Colmar and Strasbourg, four' acts of a tremendous spectacular play. Behind the fluttering flags of France, one sees the victorious troops pass into the first city on November 17, 1918. Prominent in this glorious event were the veterans of 1870, who remained behind in the conquered territory— men gray with years, some, of them bent and halting of footstep, but the majority of them, made young again, in the joy of the great occasion, swinging along to the beat of martial music. The camera not only shows the pageant, but details of the vast, glad-hearted crowds, the women in their native costume with picturesque headdress and faces "fairly singing with the joy of deliverance," as one French writer had expressed it. Editor. Reel and Slide Magazine: On page 30 of your January issue the following appears : "W. F. Herzberg of the Camel Film Company announces that his company has purchased the Diamond Film Company of Chicago. All processing and studio equipment has been taken over by Camel, as well as the Diamond business. The Diamond Film Company is one of the pioneer producers of commercial advertising film in the West."' Wish you would kindly correct this in your next issue, as the Camel Film Company did not take over ihe Diamond Film Company. We purchased the laboratories and studio and all their equipment, and are now operating this plant. Atlas Educational Film Co. Motion pictures were shown on January 31, portraying the construction of Eagle boats by the Ford Motor Company, at Champaign, 111., during a tractor demonstration in that city. The Ford Company turned its plant over for the use of the government. Picture were also shown of the Fordson tractor in operatii m. Si i retary F. H. Abbott, of the Georgia Landowners' Association, with representatives of the Southern Settlement and Development Organization, is engaged in company with Judge J. F. McCrackin in making moving pictures of various places in V'aldosta, Ga.. for use in the pictorial advertising film which the association will put out. Varied New Uses for Lantern Slides in All Educational Work By John S. Bird, A. B. FOR many years, the entertainment value of the stereopticon has been to the forefront. In recent years the usefulness of the slide has been demonstrated in more ways than one. Today, the slide is found to be valuable in all kinds of educational and propaganda work. Chambers of commerce, church bodies, clubs, lodges, industrial concerns and civic bodies find the screen a direct and effective route to people wherever they gather in numbers. For instance, members of the Racine, Wis., Woman's club were entertained recently, when Harold H. Brown, of the Indianapolis Art Institute gave a lantern slide address on the "Story of Costume," beginning with the early Egyptian draperies, coming down through the Grecian and Roman periods, the Renaissance and the hoop skirt days. An interesting fact was brought out that all through the ages, two details have remained, changing at different periods' but remaining as fundamental parts of the apparel. These are the tunic and the hood. Introduce Historical Scenes The tunic in various forms was included in the earlv Grecian and Roman costumes, later it became the doublet, then the jacket, the blouse and then reverted back to type in the modern dress. Interesting bits of histcy w=re revealed concerning leaders of fashion, such as Queen Isabella, Queen Margaret, and Louis the 15th, who set the fashion for 50 years, and possessed the most elaborate as well as the most extravagent wardrobe perhaps in all history. The Winsted, Conn., Chamber of Commerce is finding slides useful in picturing ilocal industries for the rising generation. Dr. W. R. P. Emerson illustrated his remarks on "The Problem of the Underweight Child" with many stereopticon slides at the Boston Library recently. His lantern slides demonstrated that the problem of the delicate child has not been understood because children who are undernourished have been considered well children. As a matter of fact, all children who are habitually 7 per cent under weight for their height are not only undernourished but malnourished, that is, Such children are stunted in their growth. Mrs. Algira Sandwall, of the Massachusetts state department of health, gave a lantern slide lecture in the high school building at Haverhill, recently on "The Care and Feeding of Children." Mrs. Sandwall illustrated her talk with lantern slides and showed pictures of well-nourished and poorly-fed children. "On the babies depends the efficiency of the next generation," she declared. The speaker illustrated the need of milk in the diet and showed a screen diagram of the relative value of cow's milk and mother's milk. Science Screened ' Professor J. Paul Goode, economic geographer of the University of Chicago, lectured recently before the Woman's club of Galesburg,' 111., and its men friends, illustrating with lantern slides. Prof Goode has had a wide experience in industrial life and has traveled extensively. His slide lectures are presented in a scientific spirit, but in a way to arouse a popular interest. He presents science on the screen in a manner to instruct and please a general audience. His lecture has been given before the Civic and Commerce Association of Minneapolis, which reports it as a "remarkable demonstration told in a remarkable way." It was also given before the great Ways and Means committee at the Hotel La Salle, Chicago. "Professor Goode has the student's detachment and independence of thought, the investigator's ruthless research and something of the dramatist's vision and imagination. Rarely has a great collection of illuminated maps and charts been so stimulatingly made to serve the teacher's unfolding narrative." The New York Central Lines motion picture, "The Rule of Reason," was shown at the State University at 4:00 p. m., Thursday, January 30, in the large lecture room of the engineering department for the benefit of the students. This picture was written by M. A. Daw, general safety agent for the New York Central Lines. It comprises three reels of illustrative accidents woven into an interesting story. A realistic rear-end collision of two trains forms one scene.